Search for dissertations about: "Nature Culture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 195 swedish dissertations containing the words Nature Culture.
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1. Shapeshifting Nature : Ambivalent Ways of Seeing the Non-Human World within Swedish National Park Tourism and its Visual Culture
Abstract : National parks are often assigned a self-identical role as protectors of valuable pieces of the non-human world, generally depicted as nature. Besides, many parks are also popular tourism destinations that attract millions of tourists each year. National park tourism and its visual culture impact how people relate to and see the non-human world. READ MORE
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2. Nature, culture, rights : exploring space for indigenous agency in protected area discourses
Abstract : There is considerable geographical overlap between areas set aside for nature conservation or protection and Indigenous peoples’ lands, and the social, economic, and political consequences of protected areas have often been extensive for Indigenous peoples. Discourses of conservation converge with discourses of Indigenous peoples, and both carry a legacy of colonial constructs and relationships. READ MORE
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3. Rethinking civilisation in a European feminist context: History, nature, women in Elin Wägner's Väckarklocka
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4. Natives and their nature : essays on marine mammal conservation, fishing and the anthropology of Iceland
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5. Encounters Between Music and Nature : A Productive and Transversal Approach to Contemporary Music Analysis
Abstract : This thesis examines encounters between music and nature through a productive and transversal approach to music analysis with examples from the contemporary Western art music repertoire. In three analytical chapters, I study how contemporary music potentially reframes the positions and relations between music, humans and nature by engaging with transversal concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s thinking and drawing upon Judy Lochhead’s approach to productive music analysis. READ MORE